Student Stories
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A multidisciplinary fall studio allows students to imagine positive solutions to looming global problems and speculate about possible paths to getting there.
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A digital project exploring the confines of language by grad student Jack Madden wins the RISD Museum’s annual competition.
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The Boston Globe reports on RISD’s collaborative research project with Hyundai Motor Group.
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Students in a cross-disciplinary fall studio interpret cultural history and use geo-textiles to restore what was once described as “America’s hardest-working river.”
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Students in a fall Apparel Design studio construct gender-neutral capsule collections for 18 astronauts flying to the moon.
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Ghanaian undergraduate Abena Acheampong Danquah wins a Creative Futures Grant from the Black Artists + Designers Guild.
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A transdisciplinary, student-led initiative reimagines RISD’s relationship with the ecosystem that surrounds it.
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First- and second-year MFA students simultaneously present two distinctive approaches to exhibiting fine art.
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Students in a fall Digital + Media research studio use high- and low-tech tools to explore the changing Narragansett Bay and develop creative research projects.